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An 18-year-old man has been identified as the victim who was shot in Arlington and died later at a gas station in Fort Worth, according to Tarrant County records.
Yoan Del Risco Falcon died of a gunshot wound to the chest, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s website.
Arlington police officers responded shortly before 3 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 25, to a shooting in an apartment complex in the 3100 block of E. Park Row Drive, police said in a news release.
Officers searched the area but did not immediately find anyone who was injured or any evidence of a shooting, police said.
About 30 minutes later, Fort Worth police responded to a gas station in the 6600 block of Brentwood Stair Road. There, officers found Falcon with a gunshot wound to the chest, and he was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
A witness who was with Falcon told officers the shooting took place at the Arlington apartment complex. After receiving the information from Fort Worth police, Arlington officers returned to East Park Row Drive and found several shell casings in the parking lot, police said.
Further details about what led to the shooting have not been released. No arrests have been announced.
Anyone with information regarding the shooting is asked to call Detective Dixon at 817-459-5579 or Crime Stoppers of Tarrant County at 817-469-8477.
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Shambhavi covers crime, law enforcement and other breaking news in Fort Worth and Tarrant County. She graduated from the University of North Texas and previously covered a variety of general assignment topics in West Texas. She grew up in Nepal.